Demystifying Grant Seeking: What You Really Need to Do to Get Grants (Jossey-Bass Nonprofit and Public Management Series) - Softcover

Brown, Larissa Golden; Brown, Martin John

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0787956503 ISBN 13: 9780787956509

Publisher: Jossey-Bass, 2001

Synopsis

Demystifying Grantseeking is an inspirational and instructional guide to grantseeking. The authors--successful grantseekers in their own right--show you how to overcome the common fears fundraisers often experience and offer sound, practical advice to successful grantseeking. The book provides you with a systematic and logical way of searching for grants, and helps to identify which foundations to approach so fundraisers don't waste time on dead-end proposals.

About this title

From the Inside Flap:

DEMYSTIFYING GRANT SEEKING

For weeks you have put your energy into writing a grant proposal. When it is finally finished, the proposal seems to be everything you had hoped for—eloquently written and well-crafted. You put it in the mail and hope for the best. But the "perfect" grant fails to get funded.

What went wrong?

Demystifying Grant Seeking shows you what to do to get the grants your organization needs. Many books help you write grants. This inspirational and instructional guide takes you beyond crafting proposals to offer practical advice on building an effective grant-seeking process. It reveals a new path to success that begins by dis-pelling the myths and fears that get in the way of effective grant seeking. Demystifying Grant Seeking clearly defines the principles that underpin a successful grant-seeking process and outlines a five-step system that will enhance grant-seeking efforts for both fundraising novices and seasoned professionals.

Demystifying Grant Seeking presents a proven framework that will give you the tools you need to:

• Discover the authentic needs of your community and what makes your organization's work meaningful and important
• Create foolproof materials that will become the base of all future grant proposals
• Determine how to make your formal requests for funds
• Manage the relationships that could help or hinder your proposals
• Organize your follow-up process and make it productive
• Analyze your experience to determine how your next project can be improved
• Appraise your next opportunities and upcoming deadlines
• Create an effective system for the next grant-seeking cycle

This nuts-and-bolts book covers all the details of effective grant seeking and includes a list of the materials needed to set up an office that is geared for grant-writing success. The book is filled with exercises that will help you learn a new way of operating so you can seek grants with efficiency and integrity.

From the Back Cover:

TAKE THE FIVE STEPS TO BECOME A FEARLESS GRANT SEEKER

In Demystifying Grant Seeking, authors Larissa Golden Brown and Martin John Brown offer down-to-earth advice on implementing an effective grant-seeking process based on the art of fearless grant seeking. Written for nonprofit professionals and fundraisers—no matter what their level of expertise—this hands-on resource outlines a five-step program that will help to dispel myths, overcome fears, and lead to grant-seeking success. Using the suggestions outlined in Demystifying Grant Seeking fundraisers will:

• Learn about their organizations, communities, and funders
• Match requests to funders
• Invite funders to invest in their organizations
• Follow up both internally with funders
• Evaluate results, methods, and opportunities

"At last! A practical, hands-on—and most importantly, realistic—guide to the entire grantsmanship process. Unlike so many how-to guidebooks which promise what they cannot deliver, while propagating the myth that successful grants require nothing more than a 'winning proposal,' Demystifying Grant Seeking correctly places the proposal in its proper context alongside the 'other 90 percent of the process' that funders truly consider. As a former foundation program officer, I heartily recommend Demystifying Grant Seeking!"

—Marilyn L. Gross, president, Educational Funding Strategies, Ltd., and publisher, THE INTERNET INSIDER—for Grantseekers & Fundraisers

About this edition

• Publisher: Jossey-Bass
• Publication date: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0787956503
• ISBN 13: 9780787956509
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 224